Even Donald Trump was surprised by the massive applause he got when he promised to cut federal funding for schools pushing radical gender ideology on kids.
“Look at the hand you get for that,” Trump marveled during a March 14, 2023, speech in Davenport, Iowa. “Bigger than, ‘We’re going to be energy independent!’”
Nobody would have known what he was talking about, Trump said, if he discussed gender ideology at a campaign rally during his first presidential run. He was right. Four years ago, few Americans could have imagined a presidential candidate promising to protect kids from transgender surgeries or having men in their daughters’ sports.
Trump steered clear of the issue in 2020. But 2024 has been a different story.
In the campaign’s final stretch, Trump has zeroed in on the Left’s embrace of transgenderism, pouring millions into television ads that highlight Kamala…